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Doing Business in Rural China Liangshan’s New Ethnic Entrepreneurs / Thomas Heberer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heberer, Thomas.
- Series:
- Studies on ethnic groups in China.
- Studies on ethnic groups in China
- Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic groups--China--Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng).
- Ethnic groups.
- Entrepreneurship--China--Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng).
- Entrepreneurship.
- Businessmen--China--Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng).
- Businessmen.
- Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng, China)--Social conditions.
- Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng, China).
- Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng, China)--Ethnic relations.
- Liangshan Xian (Sichuan Sheng, China)--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Washington Press 2012
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Thomas Heberer is professor of political science and East Asian studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
- Summary:
- Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book AwardMountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group), practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor, their traditional society was stratified into endogamous castes, the most powerful of which owned slaves. With the incorporation of Liangshan into China's new socialist society in the mid-twentieth century, the Nuosu were required to abolish slavery and what the Chinese government considered to be superstitious religious practices. When Han Chinese moved into the area, competing with Nuosu for limited resources and introducing new cultural and economic challenges, some Nuosu took advantage of China's new economic policies in the 1980s to begin private businesses.In Doing Business in Rural China, Thomas Heberer tells the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents a wealth of economic data gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Liangshan. He documents and analyzes the phenomenal growth during the last two decades of Nuosu-run businesses, comparing these with Han-run businesses and asking how ethnicity affects the new market-oriented economic structure and how economics in turn affects Nuosu culture and society. He finds that Nuosu entrepreneurs have effected significant change in local economic structures and social institutions and have financed major social and economic development projects. This economic development has prompted Nuosu entrepreneurs to establish business, political, and social relationships beyond the traditional social confines of the clan, while also fostering awareness and celebration of ethnicity.Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book AwardMountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group) practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor. Their traditional society was stratified into endogamous castes, the most powerful of which owned slaves. With the incorporation of Liangshan into China's new socialist society in the mid-twentieth century, the Nuosu were required to abolish slavery and what the Chinese government considered to be superstitious religious practices. When Han Chinese moved into the area, competing with Nuosu for limited resources and introducing new cultural and economic challenges, some Nuosu took advantage of China's new economic policies in the 1980s to begin private businesses.In Doing Business in Rural China, Thomas Heberer tells the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents a wealth of economic data gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Liangshan. He documents and analyzes the phenomenal growth during the last two decades of Nuosu-run businesses, comparing these with Han-run businesses and asking how ethnicity affects the new market-oriented economic structure and how economics in turn affects Nuosu culture and society. He finds that Nuosu entrepreneurs have effected significant change in local economic structures and social institutions and have financed major social and economic development projects. This economic development has prompted Nuosu entrepreneurs to establish business, political, and social relationships beyond the traditional social confines of the clan, while also fostering awareness and celebration of ethnicity.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Liangshan and its entrepreneurs
- Nuosu traditional culture and social change
- The Liangshan economic setting and private entrepreneurs
- Private sector development in nine Liangshan counties
- Comparative profiles of Nuosu and Han entrepreneurs
- The effect of entrepreneurs on local politics
- Entrepreneurs and social change
- Entrepreneurs and ethnic relations
- Entrepreneurs and ethnic identity
- Conclusion : the influence of Nuosu entrepreneurs.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-258) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295804095
- 0295804092
- OCLC:
- 824363021
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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